Background: Autism is a developmental disorder that impairs social relationships. Sleep disorders are one of the major problems of patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Objectives: Concerning the need to investigate problems and impairments caused by this disease, the present study aimed at determining the effect of an eight-week endurance training program plus Q10 supplementation on ...

PURPOSE The study was conducted to examine the sleep habits and sleep disorders in children and adolescents with headache. MATERIAL AND METHODS Three hundred children with headache were qualified to a headache group (HG) and 284 children from schools and kindergartens without headache to a control group (CG). RESULTS In our study, 27.7% children of the HG slept together with other person in...

Sleep apnoea is a common disorder with significant morbidity. It is categorised into obstructive and central sleep apnoea. There are a variety of conditions associated with central sleep apnoea ranging from cardiac failure to structural brain anomalies. We herein report a case of 57-year-old woman with Chiari malformation associated with significant sleep-disordered breathing. There was a famil...

tory disturbance in untreated patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Chest 1993; 104:340–343 16 Lindberg E, Elmasry A, Gislason T, et al. Evolution of sleep apnea syndrome in sleepy snorers: a population-based study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999; 159:2024–2027 17 Krakow B, Lowry C, Germain A, et al. A retrospective study on improvements in nightmares and posttraumatic stress disorder...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Children with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD), in spite of being hyperactive, still benefit from treatment with stimulant medications. We hypothesized that children with ADHD are in fact sleepy during the day, and we sought to test it objectively. DESIGN Single blind comparative study SETTING University medical center PARTICIPANTS Thirty-four children with a...

tory disturbance in untreated patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Chest 1993; 104:340–343 16 Lindberg E, Elmasry A, Gislason T, et al. Evolution of sleep apnea syndrome in sleepy snorers: a population-based study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999; 159:2024–2027 17 Krakow B, Lowry C, Germain A, et al. A retrospective study on improvements in nightmares and posttraumatic stress disorder...

Sleep-disordered breathing is a common disorder with a range of harmful sequelae. Obesity is a strong causal factor for sleep-disordered breathing, and because of the ongoing obesity epidemic, previous estimates of sleep-disordered breathing prevalence require updating. We estimated the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in the United States for the periods of 1988-1994 and 2007-2010 usin...